articles/Van Gogh Museum gets multicoloured makeover — theartnewspaper.com

The introductory display on the ground floor begins with a stunning array of a dozen self-portraits, immediately bringing visitors face-to-face with the artist Vincent Willem van Gogh, the great-grandson of the artist’s brother Theo, unveiled this week the first major redisplay of the Van Gogh Museum’s collection since its opening in 1973. The new presentation responds to the main reason which attracts so many visitors to the Amsterdam museum: a wish to know more about the artist’s tortured life. In the new display, Van Gogh’s masterpieces are given greater space, and the result is impressive.

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